Karen Taroyan, the inmate who was earlier reported to have cut his little finger amid a hunger-strike, still continues his protest together with two detainees.
A spokesperson for the Justice Ministry's Penitentiary Department, Gor Ghlechyan, told Tert.am that all three are in a prison cell and under doctors' observation.
Serob Mkhitaryan, a convict who was earlier among the hunger-strikers, stopped the protest on Friday.
The protesting inmates had sent three appeals to the human rights defender. Taroyan, who now serves time in Nubarashen Penitentiary, asked for moving to a penitentiary facility to Sevan or Hrazdan on the grounds that his family (wife and children) cannot visit there.
Vardan Demirchyan, one of the detainees, said he suffered from a mental disease and sought a treatment at the hospital of convicts.Mkhitaryan, who is no longer on a hunger-strike, called for Ombudsman's intervention in changing his prison cell. Demirchyan had fears that his life was under threat in the cell where he was serving time.
Ghlechyan told our reporter that Mkhitaryan's appeal was taken into consideration and he is now in a new cell.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Inmate who cut finger continues protest with 2 detainees
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